Virginia Nilles: Discrimination has no place in our nation

7:42 PM,
Jan. 24, 2014

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Virginia Nilles

Legislating discrimination is never the right thing to do. To our shame as a nation, we've seen it before. We've seen the legal system used to separate the races. Indeed, within my lifetime, it was a crime for blacks and whites to intermarry.

The legal system was used to deny women the vote and in many states a woman was not allowed to buy/sell property without their husbands' consent. Many people and groups in our country know from bitter experience that when legislation is employed to legitimize discrimination it ushers in pain and hardship for those being discriminated against.